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Tapes on Open Reels: Tia Blake at the Southern Folklife Collection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2017

STEVEN WEISS
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On 16 September 1976, in the neighbourhood of Cite du Havre in Montréal, Québec, a 24-year-old singer and songwriter named Christina ‘Tia’ Blake recorded a demo tape in Studio A of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). Tia had responded to a general request from CBC Radio looking for original songs written by local artists. She recorded three original songs that Thursday, including one song about her father and another written for an old boyfriend. She and the CBC producer listened to the playback together. The producer shook his head. There was nothing there he could use. He gave Tia the tape to keep.

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Review Essay
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Twentieth-Century Music , Volume 14 , Special Issue 1: Tape , February 2017 , pp. 149 - 151
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press, 2017 

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